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Chadar Trek

Zanskar River

10days

Hill | Mountain | Scenic

24990

Take this adventurous journey over the frozen Zahnskar river which is done in the mid of the months of January and February, to experience the extreme cold and walk on the challenging terrain.
The valleys of Ladakh and Zanskar lies in the Trans Himalayan zone. For the inhabitants of Padum, Lingshed, Fotosar and Nerak this river of ice had remained the only way to commute to trade butter and their other wares during winters. During the harsh Himalayan winter the high passes and the roads are blocked by heavy snow fall.
In winter the water of the Zanskar freeze and form a sheet of ice and snow known as the "Chadar" which means blanket in Zanskari.
There is plenty of evidence here that this region was a part of the 'Tetis Sea'. Millions of years ago the sand and the pebbles of the beach pressurized by the Tectonic Plate Movements of the Continental Drift rose up and formed Fold Mountains. The Chadar is not uniformly frozen. At certain places it is a strong and tough sheet of ice but a certain others it is dangerously broken.

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